Rival teams and the older bully, sentence 30
Standing up for a younger brother or sister is good, and telling a grown-up as well is better.
Who acts: Standing, telling · What happens: stand up, be, tell, grow · To what, where: grown up · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rival teams and the older bully» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Standing, telling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 good | csubj |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Standing | compound:prt |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 brother | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 brother | det |
| 5 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 brother | amod |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Standing | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 sister | cc |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brother | conj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 good | cop |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 better | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 better | cc |
| 13 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 better | csubj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 up | det |
| 15 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 up | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 up | punct |
| 17 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 telling | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 21 better | cc |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 better | cop |
| 21 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 good | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 good | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | gerund | for a younger brother or sister | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Standing | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a grown up | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | telling | good property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.lesson:30.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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